Publications

  1. Oh S, Lee D-Y, Gongora-Canul C, Ashapure A, Carpenter J, Cruz AP, Fernandez-Campos M, Lane BZ, Telenko DEP, Jung J, Cruz CD. Tar Spot Disease Quantification Using Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Data. Remote Sensing. 2021; 13(13):2567. https://doi.org/10.3390/rs13132567
  2. Fernandez-Campos, M., Huang, Y-T., Jahanshahi, M., Wang, T., Jin, J., Gongora-Canul, C., Telenko, D., and Cruz, C. D. 2021. Wheat spike blast image classification using deep convolutional neural networks. Plant Sci. 12:673505. doi: 10.3389/fpls.2021.673505
  3. Camila Rocco da Silva*, Jill Check*, Joshua S MacCready*, Amos E. Alakonya, Robert Beiriger, Kaitlyn M. Bissonnette, Alyssa Collins, D. Cruz et al. 2021. Recovery Plan for Tar Spot of Corn, Caused by Phyllachora maydis. Plant Health Progress. Accepted
  4. Fernandez-Campos, M.*, Gongora-Canul†, C.,, S., Kabir, M., Valent, B., and Cruz, C.D. 2020. Epidemiological criteria to support breeding tactics against the emerging, high-consequence wheat blast disease. Plant Dis. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-12-19-2672-RE
  5. Mills, K., Salgado, J., Cruz, C. D., Valent, B., Madden, L. V., and Paul, P. A. 2020. Comparing the temporal development of wheat spike blast epidemics in a region of Bolivia where the disease is endemic. Plant Dis. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-04-20-0876-RE
  6. Cruppe, G., Silva, P., Lemes da Silva, C., Peterson, G., Pedley, K., Cruz, C. D., Asif, M., Lollato, R., Fritz, A., and Valent, B. 2020. Genome-wide association reveals limited benefits of pyramiding the 1B and 1D loci with the 2NvS translocation for wheat blast control. Crop Sci. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20397
  7. Valle-Torres, T. J. Ross, D. Plewa, M. C. Avellaneda, J. Check, M. I. Chilvers, A. P. Cruz^, F. Dalla Lana, C. Groves, C. Gongora-Canul†, L. Henriquez-Dole, T. Jamann, N. Kleczewski, S. Lipps, D. Malvick, A. G. McCoy, D. S. Mueller, P. A. Paul, C. Puerto#, C. Schloemer, R. N. Raid, A. Robertson, E. M. Roggenkamp, D. L. Smith, D. E. P. Telenko, and C. D. Cruz. 2020. Tar Spot: An Understudied Disease Threatening Corn Production in the Americas. Plant Dis. https://doi.org/10.1094/PDIS-02-20-0449-FE
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  9. Valent, Barbara, Giovana Cruppe, James P. Stack, Christian D. Cruz, Mark L. Farman, Pierce A. Paul, Gary L. Peterson and Kerry F. Pedley. 2021. Recovery plan for wheat blast caused by Magnaporthe oryzae pathotype triticum. Plant Health Progress, 22(2): 182-212. https://doi.org/10.1094/PHP-11-20-0101-RP
  10. Gongora-Canul†, C., Salgado, J.D., Singh, D., Cruz, A.P.^, Cotrozzi, L., Couture, J., Rivadeneira, M.G., Cruppe, G., Valent, B., Todd, T., Poland, J., and Cruz, C.D. 2019. Temporal Dynamics of wheat blast epidemics and disease measurements using multispectral imagery. Phytopathology org/10.1094/PHYTO-08-19-0297-R
  11. Cruppe, G., Cruz, C. D., Peterson, G., Asif, M., Fritz, A., Calderon, L., Lemes da Silva, C., Todd, T., Kuhnem, P., Singh, P., Sing, R., Braun, H., Barma, N., Valent, B. 2019. Novel sources of wheat head blast resistance in modern breeding lines and wheat wild relatives. Plant Dis. org/10.1094/PDIS-05-19-0985-RE
  12. Cruz, C. D., Santana, F., Todd, T. C., Maciel, J., Kiyuna, J., Baldelomar, D., Cruz, A.P.^, Lau, D., Seixas, C., Goulart, A., Sussel, A., Schipanski, Chagas, D.F., A., Coelho, M., Dellanora, T., Utiamada, C., Custódio, Rivadeneira, M.G.*, A., Bockus, and Valent, B. 2019. International Fungicide Efficacy Trials for the Management of Wheat Head Blast. Trop. Plant Pathol. DOI:10.1007/s40858-018-0262-9

Prior to arriving at Purdue

  1. Danelli, A., Maciel, J.L., Boaretto, C., Cruz, C.D., de Castro, R., Forcelini, C. 2017. Relationship between blast severity on seedlings and panicles of Brazilian oat cultivars. Ciência Rural 47:12. http://www.scielo.br/pdf/cr/v47n12/1678-4596-cr-47-12-e20160922.pdf
  2. Cruz, C. D., Bockus, W. W., Stack, J. P., and Valent, V. 2016. A standardized inoculation protocol to test wheat cultivars for reaction to head blast caused by Magnaporthe oryzae (Triticum pathotype). Plant Health Progress 17:186-187
  3. Cruz, C. D., Stack, J. P., Fowler, G. A., Christie, D., and Magarey, R. D. 2016. Climate suitability for pathogen establishment and wheat blast outbreak in the United States. Plant Disease. Plant Dis. Doi: 10.1094/PDIS-09-15-1006-RE
  4. Cruz, C. D.†, Peterson, G., L., Bockus, W. W., Kankanala, P., Dubcovsky, J. Jordan, K. W., Akhunov, E., Chumley, F., Baldelomar, D. F., and Valent, B. 2016. The 2NS translocation from Aegilops ventricosa confers resistance to the Triticum Pathotype of Magnaporthe oryzae. Crop Sci. 56:1–11
  5. Cruz, C. D.†, Kiyuna, J.*, Bockus, W. W., Baldelomar, D. F., Todd, T. C., Stack, J. P., and Valent, B. 2015. Magnaporthe oryzae conidia on basal wheat leaves as a potential source of wheat blast inoculum. Plant Pathology Doi: 10.1111/ppa.12414
  6. Cruz, C. D., Bockus, W. W., Stack, J. P., Tang, X., Valent, B., Pedley, K. F., and Peterson, G. L. 2012. Preliminary assessment of resistance among U.S. wheat cultivars to the Triticum pathotype of Magnaporthe oryzae. Plant Dis. 96:1501-1505.
  7. Cruz, C.D., Mills, D., Paul, P., and Dorrance, A.E. 2010. Impact of brown spot caused by Septoria glycines on soybeans in Ohio. Plant Dis. 94:820-826
  8. Dorrance, A.E., Cruz, C., Mills, D., Bender, R., Koenig, M., LaBarge, G., Leeds, R., Mangione, D., McCluer, G., Ruhl, S., Siegrist, H., Sundermeier, A., Sonnenberg, D., Yost, J., Watters, H., Wilson, G., and Hammond, R. 2010. Effects of foliar fungicide and insecticide applications on soybean in Ohio.  Plant Health Progress. doi:10.1094/PHP-2010-0122-01-RS
  9. Cruz, C. D., and Dorrance, A. E. 2009. Characterization and survival of Cercospora sojina in Ohio. Plant Health Progress. doi:10.1094/PHP-2009-0512-03-RS
  10. Cruz, C. D., and Valent, V. 2017. Wheat blast disease: danger on the move. Trop. Plant Pathol. 42:210-222. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40858-017-0159-z